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I'm trying to make the ogre mage caste of ogres in Savages' Stronghold have horns, so I added the following lines to those castes:

[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:HORN:HORN_TEMPLATE]
[USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:HORN:HORN_TEMPLATE]
[BODY:2HEAD_HORN]
[RELSIZE:BY_CATEGORY:HORN:30]
I am getting the following errors from this:

*** Error(s) finalizing the creature OGRE
OGRE:FEMALE_MAGE:right horn: No tissue thickness
OGRE:FEMALE_MAGE:left horn: No tissue thickness
OGRE:MALE_MAGE:right horn: No tissue thickness
OGRE:MALE_MAGE:left horn: No tissue thickness
I'm guessing that there's something wrong with the [USE_TISSUE_TEMPLATE:HORN:HORN_TEMPLATE] added to the castes. Does it need to be in the main creature part instead?

[PET] and [COMMON_DOMESTIC] should do the trick. Whales you buy on embark will NOT be caged, with...predictable results.

Personally, I think of dwarves like the D&D model, where they can see even in total darkness (for 60 feet, but the specifics are irrelevant). That would be a sensible assumption of what cave adaptation does, since the bright light of the sun makes them nauseous.

Light shouldn't be needed to see what your dwarves are doing. It might, however, be needed to see creatures and stuff beyond ~5-20? tiles (depending on dwarf and amount of time spent underground) of a dwarf. Some areas should always be visible, like meeting areas and bedrooms and stuff, but I can't think of concrete definitions of what those areas are.

Do you mean, noble mandates automatically go to the job manager? That'd be tough, since most mandates are non-material-specific now. Or demands, or whatever--it's too general to hope to have one reaction. Take ddonohu2's demand--flasks. That's metal flasks, leather waterskins, and (I think) glass vials. That's (4+m) reactions, where m is the number of metals that can be made into flasks. And which ones SHOULD the game choose? Probably the leather waterskin one, as most forts have much more leather than any given metal to spare, but a sandy fort near a volcano might decide that glass vials are cheaper to make, or a nice player might make silver flasks for his/her duchess, or lead ones for trading to elves, or bronze ones to give the militia classy booze-containers, or the fort is shor one leather, or...so many possibilities, which the game can't really judge which is the best.

Beter idea: Noble demands and mandates are noted on the Job Manager screen.

I do agree that something to act as a sorta-like-a-bed would be very useful, if it could be made easier than an actual bedroom (e.g. could be built outdoors, didn't require building materials, something like that). My dwarves usually sleep on the ground until my miner digs out a meeting area, then in said meeting area until he gets to the bedrooms and the carpenter makes beds (which is usually completed before the bedroomwing).

What all does this have to do with why this won't work?

Hm...Yeah, nothing much that hasn't been said yet. Make sure that the little girl can reach an unforbidden workshop, and let us know what she comes up with.